TY - CONF A1 - Burger, Florian A1 - Kirchner, Malik A1 - Müller-Preussker, Michael A1 - Ilgenfritz, Ernst-Michael A1 - Lombardo, Maria Paola A1 - Philipsen, Owe A1 - Pinke, Christopher A1 - Zeidlewicz, Lars T1 - Pseudo-Critical Temperature and Thermal Equation of State from Nf = 2 Twisted Mass Lattice QCD T2 - Proceedings of Science N2 - We report about the current status of our ongoing study of the chiral limit of two-flavor QCD at finite temperature with twisted mass quarks. We estimate the pseudo-critical temperature Tc for three values of the pion mass in the range of mPS ~ 300 and 500 MeV and discuss different chiral scenarios. Furthermore, we present first preliminary results for the trace anomaly, pressure and energy density. We have studied several discretizations of Euclidean time up to Nt = 12 in order to assess the continuum limit of the trace anomaly. From its interpolation we evaluate the pressure and energy density employing the integral method. Here, we have focussed on two pion masses with mPS ~ 400 and 700 MeV. Y1 - 2012 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27441 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-274418 SN - 1824-8039 N1 - The 30 International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - Lattice 2012, June 24-29, 2012 Cairns, Australia VL - 2012 IS - (Lattice 2012)068 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati CY - Trieste ER -